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Bad Starship Names
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Anything post-Operation Yewtree - USS Jimmy Savile, USS Rolf Harris, USS Dave Lee Travis etc.
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Hey, if it helps prevent a dozen threads on the BBS of people debating & arguing exactly which Sulu the USS Sulu was named after (Hikaru? Demora? Someone else?), I'm all for it.
In real life, ships named after a person tend to get that person's full name, not just their surname. It's USS Abraham Lincoln, not USS Lincoln. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, not USS Eisenhower. (The exception seems to be USS Nimitz, which was given Chester Nimitz's surname instead of his full name.) HMCS Harry DeWolf, not HMCS DeWolf. HMCS Margaret Brooke, not HMCS Brooke. F.S. Charles de Gaulle, not F.S. de Gaulle. F.S. Chevalier Paul, not F.S. Paul.
Even the U.S. nuclear submarine is named after Jimmy Carter and not just called the U.S.S. Carter. And that's even more of an honor because it's the only current U.S. submarine in Navy inventory named after a person and not a city, a state or an animal.
I know it's a little fan-wanky, but it does cause me to wonder which Star Trek characters are likely to have Starfleet ships named after them.
I figure the list would include:
USS Jonathan Archer
USS T'Pol
USS Nathan Samuels
USS Soval
USS Thy'lek Shran
USS Christopher Pike
USS Sarek
USS Spock
USS James T. Kirk
USS Hikaru Sulu (canonical, 2401)
USS Ra-ghoratreii (novels' name for the Federation President in TUC)
USS Gorkon (canonical, 2370)
USS Jean-Luc Picard
USS Data
USS Worf
USS Benjamin Sisko
USS Kira Nerys
USS Shakaar Edon
USS Rom (canonical, 3189)
USS Martok
USS Jaresh-Inyo (canonical, 2401)
USS Kathryn Janeway
USS Seven of Nine
USS Michael Burnham
USS Paul Stamets
USS Saru
USS Rachel Garrett
And, of course, the most important Starfleet officer who ever lived...
USS Miles O'Brien
I figure the list would include:
USS Jonathan Archer
USS T'Pol
USS Nathan Samuels
USS Soval
USS Thy'lek Shran
USS Christopher Pike
USS Sarek
USS Spock
USS James T. Kirk
USS Hikaru Sulu (canonical, 2401)
USS Ra-ghoratreii (novels' name for the Federation President in TUC)
USS Gorkon (canonical, 2370)
USS Jean-Luc Picard
USS Data
USS Worf
USS Benjamin Sisko
USS Kira Nerys
USS Shakaar Edon
USS Rom (canonical, 3189)
USS Martok
USS Jaresh-Inyo (canonical, 2401)
USS Kathryn Janeway
USS Seven of Nine
USS Michael Burnham
USS Paul Stamets
USS Saru
USS Rachel Garrett
And, of course, the most important Starfleet officer who ever lived...
USS Miles O'Brien
We know there was a U.S.S. Chekov at the Battle of Wolf 359 so add Pavel to the list. And the Shran turned up at the Battle of the Binary Stars in the first episode of DSC so we know there's at least one Federation starship named after a Jeffrey Combs character. 
Ah, but is he named after Pavel the starship navigator or Anton the playwright?
But yeah, sounds like Pavel must have done something remarkable enough to get himself a starship after TUC or during the TOS movies. I wonder if Scotty, Uhura, Chapel, or Rand got ships named after themselves too?
(My personal headcanon is that Sulu got a ship named after himself both for his Starfleet career and because he went on to become Federation President per a Shatnerverse novel, but of course that's not canonical.)
And the Shran turned up at the Battle of the Binary Stars in the first episode of DSC so we know there's at least one Federation starship named after a Jeffrey Combs character.
Good catch, I forgot about that one!
I think the U.S.S. Chekov that was destroyed at Wolf 359 had the spelling of Pavel Chekov.
Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_Warner_(SSN-785)
And the second USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795) will make three when it is commissioned in October.
(The first HG Rickover was SSN-709, commissioned in 1984)
Fair enough. My mistake. The Jimmy Carter was the only one I could think of.
the noble, honorable name of HMS Pickle.
There could be a VeggieTales class!
USS Bob the Tomato
USS Larry the Cucumber
USS Mr. Lunt
USS Nezzer
USS Junior Asparagus
USS French Peas
(I used to be a VeggieTales fan....until they sold out.
)There is no USS Rom that I'm aware of. Are you sure you didn't mean USS Nog?
As for Rachel Garrett: I'm still of the mind that the Klingons named a ship after her. And possibly even enshrined her in the Hall of Warriors. So I'm jonesing for the IKS Rachel Garrett.
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D'oh! You're right.
As for Rachel Garrett: I'm still of the mind that the Klingons named a ship after her. And possibly even enshrined her in the Hall of Warriors. So I'm jonesing for the IKS Rachel Garrett.
¿Por qué no los dos?
And for anyone that doesn't know, the reason Carter got a Sub rather than an aircraft carrier like the other Presidents is that Carter served on Submarines in the Navy, and was involved in the Nuclear sub program
It's all good.
I was just reminded that Star Trek Online, in their typical method of recycling any possible trademarks (for the lack of a better term) from the limits of existing Trek lore, chose to name a 25th century spin-off of the Nova class as the Equinox class, after the infamous U.S.S. Equinox (NCC-72381).
Yikes.
Yikes.
Yeah that’s definitely a bad choice.
